BibleThump

BibleThump showed Isaac, the child protagonist of The Binding of Isaac, sobbing with tears streaming down his face. The image became one of Twitch’s standard ways to express sadness, frustration and sympathy; Twitch’s own chat research found BibleThump strongly associated with emotional situations and expressions of compassion.

The emote had been global since 2013. Twitch retired it on September 30, 2024 when its rights to the image expired, ending an eleven-year run; Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen publicly indicated that he was open to renewing or modifying it, but the original global emote still disappeared.

When this emote was active, viewers typed BibleThump in Twitch chat to use it. Viewers used it for genuinely sad scenes and bad news, but also for mock tragedy when a streamer died, failed a run, lost a match or suffered some painfully minor piece of bad luck.